Improvement in glove-fastenings



F. ai FARNHAM.

ceLovfFAs'rENING.` l 10.177,486. Patented may 1e', 1875.

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ILPETE. PHTD-IJYKDGRAPHER. WASHINGTON. D. CA

UNITED STATES PATENT QEEIcE.

FRANKQEARNHAM, 0E HAWLEY, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN GLovE-FAsTENlNes. i

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 177,486, dated May 16, 1876; application filed March 13, 1876.V

`To all whom it hwy-concern:

' Improved Glove-Fastening, of which the following is a specification:

My invention relates to the hasp staple and spring key contrivance for fastening gloves on which a patent was granted to me the 8th day of February, 1876; and it consists, in the rst place, of a kind of camshaped arrangement of one portion of the key, whereby it is maintained in the position for keeping the fastening intact; secondly, it consists ot' a contrivance of the part'of the staple forming the pivot ofthe key, so as to make it of a couple of points or prongs of the foundation-plate ofthe staple; thirdly, it consists of a simple-method of fastening the two prongs of the spring-key together at the open end 5 and, fourthly, it consists of a stretching-plate attached to the inside of the glove by the rivets or prongs whichvattach the staple.-

Figure l is a longitudinal sectional elevation of my improved glove-fastening. Fig. 2 ,is a perspective View ofthe spring-key. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the staple. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the hasp. Fig. 5 is a plan of the stretcher, and Fig. 6 is a plan of clinching-plate of the hasp.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts. l

`A is the hasp; B, the staple, and C the spring-key by which the two parts D and E of the glove are fastened, the hasp being attached to the part E, and connected `to the staple B, which is attached to part D of the glove, and the hasp and staple secured by the spring-key C, which is v,connected to the staple by being fitted on the pivot Gr, and locked together at its open end H. The looped end I of the spring-key is shifted along to the pivot G, and the key is turned up so as to pass through the eye of the hasp lengthwise,

specified.

for opening and closing the fastenings; and in order to prevent it from working into that position, and thereby becoming untastened, I make the cam shape or bend J near the iniddle, setting the upper part down, so that it cannot pass the pivot without such pressure as it is not likely to get unless specially applied for the purpose. For fastening the open end of the springkey, to keep it on the pivot of staple, -I bend the end K of one of the members of the key over the other. To construct the pivot G of the staple for holding the spring-key, I make two prongs or poin'ts, L, on the hasp-plate B iu cutting it out, and bend them up, as represented in Fig. 3. M is the stretcher, which I apply to the inside ofthe glove to prevent it from gaping open, the same being attached to the clinching-plate N, on which the pivots O are clinched. The hem P of the glove is sewed over the head of the stretcher, to be connected so that the stretcher will act. Q represents the clinching-plate for tlie rivets of the hasp A.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patentl. The cam -shaped depression J in the spring-key C, in combination with the pivot G of the staple, substantially as specied.

2. The spring-key constructed, as described,

by bending one end, K, over the other end,

substantially as specified.

3. The pivot Gr of the hasp, constructed of the prongs' L, formed from the hasp-plate, substantially as specified.

4.. The combination of the stretcher M with the glove-fastening, consisting ofthe hasp A, staple B, and spring-key C, substantially as FRANK G. FABNHAM.

Witnesses:

T. B. MosHER, ALEX. F. ROBERTS. 

